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Fundamental attribution error

Fundamental attribution error is the tendency to underestimate the influence of external factors and overestimate the influence of internal factors when making judgments about the behavior of others, is called fundamental attribution error.


Fundamental Attribution Error is the tendency to overestimate the impact of dispositional causes on others’ behavior.


Fundamental attribution error is the tendency to make an erroneous attribution about the causes of someone' s behaviour by overestimating the effects of their personal characteristics and underestimating those of the social environment.

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